Disk cloning is the process of creating
the exact working replica of a hard drive onto an external hard
drive. After
creating clone of a hard drive or volume the clone can be used
immediately. Clone is a backup of data but there is a difference
between backup and cloning. In backup we just save the content or
data to a diferent location without worrying about the system.
Benefits of cloning
hard drive:
- Creates an accurate replica of the source HDD making it a ready-to-use copy.
- If a virus/malware corrupts Mac then simply delete the corrupted system and use its clone to replace it.
- If somehow the system gets damaged then, cloned copy of the system will help to restore everything back.
- In the event of purchase of the new hard drive, you just need to have a clone of the previous Mac hard drive and use it to move all the previous data onto the new hard drive.
Negative
aspects of cloning hard drive:
- Cloning is a time-consuming process. May take hours to copy the content of a large hard drive.
- To make a clone there must be an alternative hard drive available with you. So, it is very costly.
For complete cloning and backup
solutions of the hard drive you can trust Stellar Drive Clone
utility. This tool is a complete packgae for drive cloning, drive
imaging and restoration of volume from folders or image file.
Main features of this tool are:
- Cloning of hard drive and volumes
- Cloning of SSD drives to Mac hard drive.
- Supports HFS, HFS, FAT and exFAT file systems.
- Cloning of hard drives formatted with MBR(Master Boot Record) partition map scheme.
- Imaging of the Mac hard drive or volume. In imaging this tool skips the bad sectors and creates image for good sectors only.
- Resizing of the destination hard drive in case the destination hard drive has space left after cloning.This tool resizes the volume on the destination hard drive and make the free memeory usable.
- Restore feature of this tool provides facility to restore data from the clone in case of data loss.
- If Mac crashes and fails to boot then for this condition this tool provides a faeture to create a bootable DVD that will boot the system.
- It has a very striking feature of creating the minimal system having only the necessary system files needed to operate the Mac.
Clone
of HDD should be created using only the quality tool and this tool
has so many striking features that makes it to stand above in the
crowd from different cloning software available in the market.